Associate Project Manager

About Osmose

With 85 years of experience, Osmose proudly serves the electric utility and telecommunications industries across the U.S., helping enable the delivery of safe, reliable and affordable electricity and communications services to millions of customers nationwide. We are the industry leader in wood and steel structure condition assessment, life-extension and rehabilitation services. Our mission is to accurately inspect and mitigate aging infrastructure in a planned, programmatic manner that minimizes owner costs while maximizing benefits.

Headquartered in Peachtree City, Georgia, with satellite offices in Atlanta, Buffalo-Depew, Syracuse, Boston-Westborough and Secaucus, NJ, the Osmose footprint extends throughout the country. Our employees are inspired to perform each and every day by our core values of integrity, customer focus, safety, respect, excellence, flexibility, efficiency and ownership. Our staff and field personnel represent some of the most tenured, well trained, and innovative professionals in the industry.

We are currently seeking an Associate Project Manager plans, directs, coordinates or budgets activities concerned with the utility services provided by Osmose. The project manager participates in the conceptual development of a project and oversees its organization, scheduling and implementation. This associate accomplishes project objectives by planning and evaluating project activities. The Project Manager will work directly with the internal Osmose operations, delivery, engineering, business development and management teams and the customer to ensure the project objectives are aligned and with the contracted scope of work. The Project Manager will be required to represent Osmose in customer facing project meetings.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and adhere to the Project Management Methodology.
• Effectively communicates with field staff, engineering and technical staff, data delivery teams, management, and customers.
• Work with Osmose Operations and Business Development Managers to plan, organize and direct activities concerned with utilities services projects.
• Establish project objectives, policies, procedures and performance standards within boundaries of company policy and contracted work scope specifications.
• Meet project and company financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing a project budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Proficiency in project cost accounting required (track and reconcile revenue, cost of goods, accruals, invoiced totals)
• Collaborate with Osmose operations management to address such matters as work procedures, complaints and project problems.
• Monitor and control project through administrative direction of operations and delivery resources to ensure project is completed on schedule and within budget.
• Investigate potentially serious situations and implement corrective measures.
• Represent company in customer facing project meetings and attend strategy meetings.
• Work with contract administrators to manage financial aspects of contracts to protect company’s interest and simultaneously maintain good relationship with the customer.
• May requisition supplies and materials to complete project.
• Interpret and explain plans and contract terms to administrative staff, workers and clients.
• Formulate reports concerning such areas as work progress, costs and scheduling.
• Production scheduling, tracking and resource management.
• Ability to coordinate, manage and interact with multiple operations and systems engineering teams in multiple locations.
• Quantitative analysis of large production data.
• Ability to manage databases and extract required data to generate reports.
• Ability to interpret, analyze and summarize bulk raw production data and generate conclusions/recommendations.
• Ability to recognize, track, manage and resolve project issues as they arise throughout the project life cycle.
• Ability to generate summary and year end project reports for internal and external distribution.
• Contribute to other related projects and plans not specifically noted necessary to obtain the objectives of Osmose Utilities Services.

Requirements:

• BS in Business or technical degree preferred (computer science, mathematics, statistics, business or other very quantitative mathematical field)
• Experience with Corrosion Services projects
• 3–7 years professional experience in utility or utility services industry management preferred
• Organization, self-motivation, safe working attitude, and professionalism
• Communication Proficiency (written, verbal)
• Teamwork Orientation
• Proficiency in MS Excel required
• Proficiency in MS Access preferred
• Proficiency in MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio preferred
• Willingness to work flexible hours whenever necessary to achieve the desired results.
• Commitment to supporting all Company policies
• Moderate travel required (25-50%), some overnight stay required
• Presentation skills required
• Leadership
• Mathematical Skills
• Embrace all company Core Values
• PMP Certification through Project Management Institute is a plus

Benefits

Come grow with us! Full-time employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Medical Insurance and Health Savings Account with company contribution
• Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, STD, LTD, Critical Illness Plan and more!
• 401(k) with excellent company match
• Paid time off

Osmose is an Equal Opportunity employer. EOE M/F/Disabled/Vet

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 – $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

License/Certification:

• PMP (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote